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The English version of this paper appeared two years after the Chinese “original”. During the 1950s and early 1960s, DDK visited China several times on exchange programmes.
Published in the Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics 11, 49–57 (1959). The Chinese version appeared in Advancement in Mathematics 3, 485–491 (1957). Reprinted with permission.
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Kosambi, D.D. (2016). The Method of Least-Squares. In: Ramaswamy, R. (eds) D.D. Kosambi. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3676-4_21
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